Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people ...

Annie Jacobsen's new book, Area 51, made a splash with the claim that the UFO that crashed near Roswell, N.M., in 1947 was not extraterrestrial, but rather part of an elaborate (and weird) hoax by Soviet Union.

Things don't always go as planned. Check out the pics below to see a few examples of what happens when our expectations get punched in the face by reality. -- via -- via Tickling Expectations: Reality: -- via -- ...

(or ) is a from . It says that if the only difference between two explanations is how complex they are, the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is.

Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the Nietzsche himself. Many you'll agree with. Others you will resist, but these are the ones to pay the most attention to — your beliefs are being challenged.

The binary number system (aka base 2) represents values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1.
Computers call these bits. A bit is either off (0) or on (1). When arranged in sets of 8 bits (1 byte) 256 values can be represented (0-255).
Using an ASCII...